Sphere over Oldsmar, FL
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The report, as filed
I was walking my dog on the very clear evening. I was admiring the very bright partial moon and after taking my dog back in, I got outside to take some pictures of the moon. I used my Apple 6S phone camera and took 10 pictures. In two of them, I got my finger on a way of the lens but you can still see the orb, one seems to be a mistake picture of streetlight, and couple of the pictures are without zoom and don't show anything odd in them. But in those pictures I took with a zoom you can see a blue round object flying this way and that in my photos. With the camera having the feature that when you take a still shot it gives you first c. half second "live" movement. With this feature it is easy to see from which direction the object flies from right at the time when I take the photo and the speed of it. It is interesting that I did not see any orb or object in the sky while looking up, but I did notice the blue dot after taking a picture but I thought it was a reflection from something. That is why I took so many picture trying to get one without the blue dot. Also you can see a halo around the object, faint version of the moon's.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131715). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Oldsmar, FL
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November 24, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
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July 9, 2016 · 9:10 PM · CIGAR
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